The game is also known as Black Lady and is one of the most popular evasion-type of games. The main goal is to avoid hearts suit and Queen of Spades in winning tricks. Those cards are giving penalty points. See our additional tips about Hearts rules, dealing & scoring. Play Hearts online for free with thousands of players worldwide! Hearts is a trick-taking card game played by four players. This card game as currently known, originated with a family of associated games called Reversis, which were popular around 1750 in Spain. The game has become popular in live play among grade school students in Canada, and has increased in popularity through Internet gaming websites. Fall in love with Hearts at 247Hearts.com! Hearts is structured to be played with four players, it is not difficult to learn but there is strategic play abound. Like other fun trick-taking card games such as Spades and Bridge the rules of the game are not complicated.

For all three difficulty levels the cards are dealt completely at random to both you and to the computer players. Computer players are not given any special advantage and they do not know what cards are in your hand or in any other players' hands. The difference between the easy, standard, and pro players is the strategy used to choose their plays. If you are finding that the computer is beating you, you will likely benefit from understanding how the computer chooses its next move.

Passing:	Chooses a random set of cards.
Playing:	Chooses a random valid card.

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Passing:

Chooses the three highest valued cards where value is determined by the card number (Ace, King, Queen, etc...) and suit (Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs).

Playing:

When playing first, chooses the lowest card in hand. When playing 2nd or 3rd, plays the highest card that will not take the trick, otherwise, plays the lowest card of suit. When playing last, if there are points in the trick, plays the highest card that will not take the trick or if it must take the trick, plays the highest card of suit (avoiding the Queen of Spades). If playing last and there are no points in the trick, plays the highest card in hand. When the player is void in the lead suit, it will play its highest valued cards starting with QS, AS, AH, AD, AC, KS, KH, KD, KC, QH, QD, QC, etc...

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Passing:

Chooses the three highest valued cards where value is determined by the card number (Ace, King, Queen, etc...) and suit (Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs).

Playing:

The pro computer evaluates each valid play by simulating random card distributions of the unseen cards taking into account which players are known to be void in particular suits. When simulating a game, each player plays the rest of the round using the Standard Playing algorithm (see above). At the end of each simulated round, the final score is recorded and the average round score is determined for each valid play. The play that results in the lowest average simulated round score is used.